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-tOBERT HUTTON, OF WILLIAMSBURG, N EW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 IIIMSELF ANDWILLIAM MEE, 0F SAME IDLACE.

Letters Patent No. 60,736, dated Jmuary 1, 18b7.

IMPROVEMENT IN BLINDS.

ToALL wHoM 1r MAY eoNen'nN:

Be it known that I, ROBERT BUTTON, of Williamsburg, in the county ofKings, and State of New York, have invented new and useful improvementsin Window Blinds; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, land exact description thereof, which will enable others skilledin the art to make and use the same. i The present invention relates tothat class of window-blinds in which the slats composing thesame arehung s0 as to swing or turn in the side pieces of the blind frame; andit consists principally in a novel manner of connecting the :severalslats to the operating rod employed for removing the slats, which rod,in lieu of being arranged along the centre line of the slats, is atoncand the same end of each of thelsame, and is there hung directly tothe ends of the slats by suitable te-nonsor pins formed thereon, so thatwhen the slats are closed the said rod will offer no obstructionI to theraising and lowering of the sashes'of the window-frame in connectionwith which such blind is used. p A

This invention also consists in a novel manner of hanging one end of theslats between the upper and lower one of each series of slats of theblind-rods; and also in the use of a spring or springs, in connectionwith one or more of the tenons of the blind-slats, for the purpose of sobinding. them as to prevent their turning too freely and thusv becomingdisarrangedwhen once brought to any desired position, whether Amore orless opened or Closed.

In the accompanying plate of drawings my improvements are illustrated-,Figure 1 being a front view of a blind constructed according thereto,with a portion of one of the side `pieces of `such frame broken out oraway to show the arrangement of the spring in eonneetion'with the tenenof one of the blind-slats; and

Figure 2, a transverse vertical section taken in the plane of the line:v x, g. 1. Similar letters of reference indicate like parts. A, in thedrawings, represents a blind-frame, and I3 its several slats, that atone end are all hung by tenons,

7 C, in and to one of the side pieces D of the blind-frame, but attheirothers, with the exception ot' the upper and lower one of theseries, (which are hung by tenons tothe opposite side piece F of theblindframe,) are hung by pins or tenons Gr, formed at such end tovertical'rods H, one upon the-outside and th other upon the inside ofthe blind; these rods being also similarly hung to the upper and 4lowerones of the series of slats, thus sustaining the slats in their properrelative position, as is obvious without anyfu'rther explanation.

By the rods H the slats are operated, and' as they are upon the'ends ofthe slats in lieu of along their centre line, or midway between theirtwo ends, such rod of the two rods as is upon the inside of the blindwhen it is closed upon the window, is, if the slats are closed one yuponanother by properly operating such rod, in such a position as w'be outof the way, or in other words out of the )line of movement of the sashesof the window when raised or lowered for being opened or closed, as theease may be-an advantage of much importance.

In connection with the tenons of the slats, a spiral spring, L, isarranged in the side of the blind-frame in which such tenen turns, so asto bear upon theend of the said tenen, as plainly shown in g.'1, andthus to bind or hold the same sufficiently tight to prevent its-turninglfreely or easy, and thus to become disarranged, as it were, inposition, after the slats have been once set, either moreor less openedor closed, as may be found desirable. 'l

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A blindhavingits red for` operating the slats of the same hung to one end ofsuch slats, substantially as and for the purpose described. l

The above, specification of my invention signed by me this 19th day ofSeptember, 1866.

' ROBT. HUTTON. Witnesses: v

WM. F. MeNAMARA, Alinear W. Btowin

